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Furthermore, not only are you never really arguing about what you think you’re arguing about with a liberal, liberals will paint you as evil for continuing to support something they were backing five minutes ago. How many liberals did you hear demanding gay marriage 20 years ago? Almost none. Then, the second Barack Obama changed his mind about it, everyone who disagreed with gay marriage became a gay-hating homophobe. Did you notice the shocking speed with which we moved from “Liberals would never demand that women share bathrooms with men. That’s crazy….” to, “Anyone who doesn’t support men and women in the same bathroom is transphobic”?

Along similar lines, condemning whatever liberals want you to condemn to try to win favor with them is pointless. Go ahead and support their call to take down Confederate monuments. Do that and they’ll then demand that you oppose any sort of efforts to prevent voter fraud. Agree to that and they’ll insist that you admit that you’re racist by default since you’re white. Go along with that and they’ll say you have to vote for whatever tyrannical socialist they run in 2020 to be a good person. Then finally, if you say that’s a bridge too far, they’ll say, “Ha! Knew it! You’re just another one of those white supremacist Republicans!” There is no win/win to be had. There is no honest debate. There’s only a bait and switch designed to elevate liberals at everyone else’s expense.

Let me also note that I am not against apologizing when you’re wrong. I do it. It’s the right thing to do….except when you’re dealing with liberals. Never apologize to liberals. But, what if you’re 100 percent wrong? Still, don’t apologize. Why? Because liberals don’t view apologies like normal human beings. They view even the most sincere apology from a non-liberal as a club they can use to beat you. If you get in the crosshairs of some mob of social justice warriors, you’re a fool if you think that they will let you be because you were big enough to admit you were wrong. To the contrary, they will demand that you be fired, that you be scorned, that no good person could ever have anything to do with you again and they will point to your own apology as absolute proof that they’re right.

Other times, the liberal bait and switch is more insidious. Remember how it worked with Obamacare?

Democrats promised Obamacare would dramatically cut the cost of health care, that people could keep their doctors and plans if they liked them and everything was going to be wonderful, amazing and better in every way. Of course, none of that turned out to be true. Later, after trying to blame the failures of Obamacare on Republicans, liberals admitted that they had to lie to get the bill passed and said we should all be grateful that they did. Besides, everyone knew they were lying, right? Now that the system that they promised would be the best thing ever is falling to pieces, their solution is single-payer health care, which coincidentally turns out to be what many Republicans said they were trying to do all along. According to Republicans, the idea was to design a plan that would fail so they could try to do a full government takeover. That might sound a bit conspiratorial, except as it turns out, that’s exactly what happened. Going along with a bad liberal idea almost inevitably turns out to be a set-up or justification for an even worse idea down the road.

You want intellectual honesty from liberals? You’re not going to get it.

Of course not. What you WILL get instead is more demands, each more outrageous than the last, every time you give in to them. Their insistence on not just winning each and every time, but on the utter annihilation and humiliation of their opponents by rubbing their noses in their defeat might just be the single most annoying thing about them. It’s one reason why, say, the 2A folks are absolutely correct to be worried about the slippery slope where gun laws are concerned. They know very well that if you give them an inch on “reasonable, common sense gun safety laws” or “assault weapon” restrictions, the next thing you know they’ll attempt to have their jackbooted gendarmerie kicking your door in and seizing every firearm within reach the moment they think they can get away with it.

And that’s just one example. Every single slope is a slippery one indeed where these greedy fascists are concerned, on every issue you care to consider, from free speech to health care to business overregulation to all the various culture clashes. In the end, when it comes to the Left, the only sensible rule of thumb must be: never give in. Not one inch, not one time. Because whenever they win, America loses. And freedom becomes an ever-fading vision in the rearview mirror as we trundle along the road to abject servitude and despotism.

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It is this country’s “Law Enforcement” who enable this treason. Nothing will change for the better until enough of their corpses are stacked in the streets. And their spouses are fully aware of how foul they are, yet cheer them on anyways. Valid targets as well.